Ewald Hoinkis
Ewald Hoinkis (born January 7, 1897 in Görlitz ; † May 1, 1960 in Bühl (Baden) ) was a German photographer .
Hoinkis began to experiment with photography with a self-made camera at the age of 15. After graduating from secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and served in the German Air Force from 1915 to 1918 during the First World War , where he was able to train as a photographer in a military laboratory. After the end of the war he took private art lessons and worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist, although at times he also had to earn a living as a bank and office clerk.
From 1924 he became more intensively involved in photography, taking landscape photos, cityscapes and portraits of his wife Jenny. He also experimented with photograms , the results of which were shown in 1929 at the “Film und Foto” exhibition of the German Werkbund in Stuttgart . In the same year he took part in the traveling exhibition “Photography of the Present”, which was first shown in Berlin , and opened a studio for advertising and portrait photography in Görlitz, from 1931 there was also a branch in Berlin. In the following years, Hoinkis specialized in fashion photography, his photos appear in numerous German and international magazines, including Der Bazar , Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung , Die Dame , die neue linie , Uhu and Vogue . In the 1930s, Hoinkis also experimented with Carbro-Color prints . During this time he was friends with George Grosz , of whom he took several portraits. From 1932 he also taught in Berlin, from 1932 to 1933 at the municipal workshop teacher seminar and from 1938 to 1941 at the advertising training institute . Hoinkis' studio and archive were destroyed in the air raids on Berlin in 1943 and 1944.
In 1949 he opened a studio for photography and film in Munich, and in 1954 he and his daughter moved to Frankfurt am Main . In the following years he published recordings in the magazines Constanze , Elegante Welt , Frankfurter Illustrierte , heute and Quick . He also made advertising photos for Reemtsma , Kaffee Hag and Elbeo , among others .
Works by Hoinkis can be found in the Berlinische Galerie , in the Museum Folkwang in Essen and in the Gundlach Collection in Hamburg .
literature
- Hoinkis, Ewald . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 203.
- Ewald Hoinkis. Photographs 1924-60 . Nishen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88940-030-2 .
- Johannes Christoph Moderegger: Fashion Photography in Germany 1929-1955. Fashion photography in the focus of the Third Reich. BoD, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0731-9 .
- Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Fashion photographs in German magazines 1936–1943. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Münchner Stadtmuseum November 9, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 , p. 68.
Web links
- Ewald Hoinkis , Photographers Wiki
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoinkis, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1960 |
| Place of death | Bühl (Baden) |